Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar

After each conference, the organizing committee has selected papers to appear in a printed volume, along with illustrations and occasional additional material. These collections are thus invaluable repositories of scholarship about everyday life in New England over the centuries. Peter and Jane Montague Benes edited each volume between 1976 and 2019.

  • Puritan Gravestone Art (1976)
  • New England Historical Archaeology (1977)
  • Puritan Gravestone Art II (1978)
  • New England Meeting House and Church (1979)
  • New England Prospect: Maps, Place Names, and the Historical Landscape (1980)
  • The Bay and the River (1981)
  • Foodways in the Northeast (1982)
  • American Speech: 1600 to the Present (1983)
  • Itinerancy in New England and New York (1984)
  • Families and Children (1985)
  • The Farm (1986)
  • Early American Inventories (1987)
  • House and Home (1988)
  • New England/New France (1989)
  • Medicine and Healing (1990)
  • Algonkians of New England (1991)
  • Wonders of the Invisible World (1992)
  • New England’s Creatures: 1400‒1900 (1993)
  • Painting and Portrait Making in the American Northeast (1994)
  • Plants and People (1995)
  • New England Music (1996)
  • Textiles in Early New England: Design, Production, and Consumption (1997)
  • Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production (1998)
  • Textiles in New England II: Four Centuries of Material Life (1999)
  • New England Celebrates: Spectacle, Commemoration, and Festivity (2000)
  • Women’s Work in New England, 1620‒1920 (2001)
  • The Worlds of Children, 1620‒1920 (2002)
  • Slavery/Antislavery in New England (2003)
  • New England Collections and Collectors (2004)
  • Life on the Streets and Commons (2005)
  • New England Diaries 1: Diary Diversity, Coming of Age (2006)
  • New England Diaries 2: Neighborhoods, War, Travel, and History (2007)
  • New England and the Caribbean (2008)
  • Waterways and Byways, 1600‒1890 (2009)
  • Dressing New England: Clothing, Fashion, and Identity (2010)
  • New England and the Civil War (2011)
  • The Irish in New England (2012)
  • Foodways in the Northeast II: A Second Helping (2013)
  • Let the Games Begin: Sports and Recreation in New England (2014)
  • Schooldays in New England: 1650–1900 (2015)
  • New England at Sea: Maritime Memory and Material Culture (2016)
  • Small World: Toys, Dolls and Games in New England (2017)
  • Religious Spaces: Our Vanishing Landmarks (2018)
  • Entertainments at Taverns and Long Rooms in New England, 1700–1900 (2019)

To purchase Proceedings volumes, please go to this page at Historic Deerfield. Not all volumes are still available, but copies can be found in many libraries.